You are listening to the ultimate midlife crisis,

joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi everybody, and thanks as ever for coming back to hear me ramble on about my 2019

through hike of the Appalachian Trail. The show is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail and I'm

Mighty Blue. This time it is just me ramble on. No guests, just my best recollections of the past five days since we

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Thanks guys.

When we last spoke, I believe we'd already decided that the weather forecast was so ominous

that a zero day was in order.

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